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“Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
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The Levites, however, are to set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant law so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the covenant law.”
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Bring the Levites to the front of the tent of meeting and assemble the whole Israelite community.
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Moses, Aaron and the whole Israelite community did with the Levites just as the Lord commanded Moses.
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Report on the Exploration
They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.
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“How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites.
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The priest is to make atonement for the whole Israelite community, and they will be forgiven, for it was not intentional and they have presented to the Lord for their wrong a food offering and a sin offering.
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The whole Israelite community and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, because all the people were involved in the unintentional wrong.
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and rose up against Moses. With them were 250 Israelite men, well-known community leaders who had been appointed members of the council.
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Isn’t it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the Israelite community and brought you near himself to do the work at the Lord’s tabernacle and to stand before the community and minister to them?
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The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “You have killed the Lord’s people,” they said.
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“A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They are to be kept by the Israelite community for use in the water of cleansing; it is for purification from sin.
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Water From the Rock
In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
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But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”
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The Death of Aaron
The whole Israelite community set out from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.
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and when the whole community learned that Aaron had died, all the Israelites mourned for him thirty days.
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“Take a census of the whole Israelite community by families—all those twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army of Israel.”
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Give him some of your authority so the whole Israelite community will obey him.
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He is to stand before Eleazar the priest, who will obtain decisions for him by inquiring of the Urim before the Lord. At his command he and the entire community of the Israelites will go out, and at his command they will come in.”
